Film & Discussion: Race To Nowhere
When
Wednesday March 18, 2015: 6:30pm to 9:00pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
Where
Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room
For Whom
Adults And Teens Grade 9 And Up.
Description
Parents today are expected to raise high-achieving children, skilled in a multitude of talents, and ready to respond to many complex challenges. Bombarded by academic standards, competition for educational opportunities, and run-away schedules, young people struggle to accommodate the intense demands. From preschool through college, children are pressured, pushed, coached, sculpted, scheduled and reviewed, running a never-ending gauntlet towards adulthood.
Race To Nowhere, rated PG-13, is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century.
A community discussion led by Elizabeth Koschmann, PhD, Research Investigator in the U-M Department of Psychiatry and a member of the U-M Depression Center, will follow this screening.
Library Event
Subjects
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Adult
Teen
Film/Video Events
Social Issues
Film discussions
Education